Dan Gillmor column

A weekly column about technological developments, especially as they affect media, from Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight centre for digital media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Dan aims to show how people can move from being passive consumers of media to active users. Follow him on Twitter @dangillmor

Dan Gillmor: The so-called 'sharing economy' has already disrupted a lot more than traffic. If peer-to-peer startups are too cheap and easy for an eroding global middle class to ignore, what happens next?